I was wrong

Apparently the open carry advocates in Texas have NOT learned from their mistakes, and continue not being helpful in promoting our gun rights. Dallas Morning News reports a bunch of these yahoos recently strolled into a Chili’s and a Sonic toting their hardware – because that’s what you do when you sit down for some southwestern cuisine, right? – and were asked to get the hell out. Once again, they drew attention to themselves. Once again they were magnets for people coming up and recording them with their phones, magazines in wells, rifles slung in the front… Because look at us! Look how cool we are!

Open Carry Texas opponents are asking Chili’s and Sonic to craft “gun sense policies that keep their restaurants safe,” joining the likes of Starbucks, Wendy’s, Jack In The Box, Applebees and Chipotle. That could be in the works, at least at the locally based chain: Says Brinker in a statement provided to The Dallas Morning News, “Given the recent attention to open carry laws, we continue to evaluate the policy(emphasis mine) to ensure we provide a safe environment for our guests and team members.”

To be fair, these incidents apparently happened on May 19 – two days before the Texas open carry groups issued their official statement. But I can’t imagine the message wasn’t conveyed to their members days before the official statement was issued! I can’t imagine, this wasn’t a topic of discussion among the membership of these groups. I can’t imagine these tools didn’t know!

Well, let’s hope they know now. And let’s hope they cease this counterproductive activity, because as it stands now, they’re doing more harm than good!

Gosh, I hate it when people do this. They think they’re such hard core freedom fighters, and don’t realize that they’re pushing us one step closer the precipice where average respectful folks will lose what rights we have now.

This type of nonsense is akin to someone burning an American flag and saying, “Death to America.” Could they? Yes, they have the first amendment. That doesn’t mean they should. It’s an abuse of their rights (leading to the eventual withdrawal of said rights).

Yes, the particular person I have in mind does that shit too. When I question open carry/fighting with people just for the bloody hell of it, his jaw hits the floor and he says, “What are you, a liberal?” Moron.

Still…..it strikes me as at least POSSIBLE that these were some anti-gun idiots hoping to stir up controversy. Remember Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine?” He did something similar and I don’t think anyone would rationally refer to him as “pro-2nd Amendment.”

Rob

Hi, I'm Rob. I used to blog at Northern Virginia Conservative, but Nicki got way more hits anyhow, so I moved over here. My language is somewhat less colorful than hers, but I also get pretty passionate.

I'm a liberty Republican activist, and work in fundraising right now during the day.